[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 149 (Friday, August 6, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43276-43277]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16595]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 70-1151; NRC-2015-0039]


Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC; Columbia Fuel Fabrication 
Facility

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft environmental impact statement; request for comment and 
public comment meeting.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for 
Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC's (WEC's) license renewal 
application to continue to operate its Columbia Fuel Fabrication 
Facility (CFFF) for an additional 40 years. The CFFF is located in 
Hopkins, South Carolina, and manufactures nuclear fuel assemblies for 
commercial nuclear power plants. The WEC's license renewal request, if 
granted as proposed, would allow the CFFF to continue to be a source of 
nuclear fuel for commercial nuclear power plants for 40 years from the 
date the NRC approves the renewal.

DATES: The NRC staff will hold a virtual public meeting through online 
webinar and teleconference call on the draft EIS at 6:00 p.m. (ET) on 
August 26, 2021. The NRC staff will present the preliminary findings 
documented in the draft EIS and receive public comments during this 
virtual, transcribed public meeting. Members of the public are invited 
to submit comments by September 20, 2021. Comments received after this 
date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the 
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received 
on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0039. Address 
questions about Docket IDs to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624; 
email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact the 
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
     Email comments to: [email protected].
     Leave comments by voicemail at: 1-800-216-0881.
    For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diana Diaz-Toro, telephone: 301-415-

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0930; email: [email protected] or Jean Trefethen, telephone: 301-
415-0867; email: [email protected]. Both are staff of the Office 
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0039 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
obtain publicly available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0039.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS 
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public 
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or 
by email to [email protected]. The draft EIS can be found in ADAMS 
under Accession No. ML21209A213.
     Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies 
of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request 
to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 
301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.
     Project Website: Information related to the WEC project 
can be accessed on the NRC's WEC website at https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/fc/westinghouse-fuel-fab-fac-sc-lc.html. Under the section 
titled ``Operating,'' scroll down to ``Key Documents'' and click on 
Draft EIS, NUREG-2248, Draft Report for Comment.
     Public Libraries: A copy of the NRC staff's draft EIS will 
be made accessible at the following public libraries (library access 
and hours are determined by local policy):
     Richland Public Library--Main: 1431 Assembly St., 
Columbia, SC 29201;
     Richland Public Library--Lower Richland: 9019 Garners 
Ferry Road, Hopkins, SC 29061; and
     Richland Public Library--Eastover: 608 Main Street, 
Eastover, SC 29044.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0039. The NRC cautions you not to 
include identifying or contact information that you do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all 
comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 
comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment 
submissions to remove identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to 
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should 
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

II. Meeting Information

    The NRC is announcing that staff will hold a virtual public meeting 
as an online webinar and teleconference to receive comments on the 
draft EIS. Video of the staff's presentation will be accessible online 
at the webinar address and audio will only be accessible through the 
telephone line. The telephone line will also be used for the public to 
submit oral comments. A court reporter will be recording all comments 
received during the webinar and the transcript of the meeting will be 
made publicly available. The date and time for the public webinar is as 
follows:

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               Meeting                          Date                     Time                                  Webinar information
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Virtual Public Meeting..............  August 26, 2021........  6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.      Webinar Access (Video):
                                                                (ET).                   Event address: https://usnrc.webex.com.Event Event number: 199 891 1794.
                                                                                        Event password: WESTDEIS.
                                                                                        Telephone Access (Audio):
                                                                                        Phone number: 1-800-369-3311.
                                                                                        Passcode: 5558821.
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    Persons interested in attending this meeting should check the NRC's 
Public Meeting Schedule web page at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg for 
additional information, agenda for the meeting, and access information 
for the webinar and telephone line.

III. Discussion

    The NRC is issuing for public comment the draft EIS for WEC's 
license renewal application, which includes the NRC staff's analysis 
that evaluates the environmental impacts of the proposed action and 
alternatives to the proposed action. Based on the NRC staff's (i) 
review of the license renewal application request, which includes the 
environmental report, supplemental documents, and the licensee's 
responses to the NRC staff's requests for additional information; (ii) 
consultation with Federal, State, and Tribal agencies and input from 
other stakeholders; and (iii) independent review as documented in the 
assessments summarized in the draft EIS, the NRC staff has concluded 
that the proposed action would result in small impacts on all resource 
areas except for groundwater resources for which the impacts would be 
small to moderate.

    Dated: July 30, 2021.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jessie M. Quintero,
Chief, Environmental Review Materials Branch, Division of Rulemaking, 
Environmental and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety, 
and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2021-16595 Filed 8-5-21; 8:45 am]
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